Going To Buenos Aires In His Mind…

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Check out this line from Gov. Mark Sanford’s (R-SC) second inaugural address in 2007, paying tribute to the march of technological progress and South Carolina’s part in it:

Think for one second about the rate of change in the world around us.

The Pan Am Clipper Class used to be the envy of airline travel. One of their planes would fly 32 passengers at 150 miles per hour from point A to point B. The Miami to Buenos Aires flight took 6 days with numerous crew stops along the way.

The new Boeing 787, being in large part produced here in South Carolina, will soon take 300 passengers at 560 miles an hour on a 9 hour trip straight from Miami to Buenos Aires.

Apparently he’s been thinking about traveling to Buenos Aires for quite a while.

Also, Stephen Colbert last night flashed back to an interview he did a year ago with Sanford, asking the governor to tell him about the Mark Sanford nobody knows about. “Well, I guess it would be the degree to which I love solitude,” said Sanford. “I love to be out in the woods with my boys.”

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